The Fire Institute

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 - 10:17 AM CST

The Fire Institute

Mundane. Run-of-the-mill. Routine. Stagnant. Ordinary. Each of these words conjures up images of something boring and stale and maybe even dead or dying. Not exactly how one would want their life remembered. Yet that’s how many of us live, settling for a status quo existence. Many Christian students lived this way, too, without a resource to help guide them to a more extraordinary life, until...

The original FIRE Institute, created in 1985, was a product of Rich Wilkerson and his desire to see students reach a greater degree of commitment in their walk with Christ. He had a strong conviction that students didn’t need another fun activity night but deep down they wanted to be challenged with something that would change their lives forever. Thus, FIRE was born as a 13-week intense discipleship program divided into four individual “philosophies” – Foundation, Inspiration, Responsibility, and Evangelism.

With Rich’s gracious permission, national youth ministries Student Discipleship Director, Rod Whitlock, has taken the core of FIRE and updated it into something today’s students can relate with and still be challenged by. According to Whitlock, “FIRE Institute may very well be the best all-around discipleship tool ever offered for leaders and students.” This is not just another ordinary, mundane, run-of-the-mill resource for teens!

The four “philosophies” stretch students by taking them through in-depth Bible study, lessons in theology, a class project of their choice, sharing their faith, Scripture memorization and more with every section growing in intensity. The program has been changed to four separate, eight week courses that will cause students to reach beyond themselves and experience a time with Christ like they have never imagined. They will be asked to sacrifice things that have become all too familiar in their everyday lives with the reward being a life consumed by God’s fire.

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Speed the Light

The concept is simple: we give so others can speed the light of the gospel to a world in darkness. This is accomplished by providing the “essential transportation and creative communication” equipment for missionary evangelism. Through modern transportation, radio, television, the printed word, and equipment for mass evangelism, missionaries can better fulfill the Great Commission and the Speed the Light mission to see “souls saved and lives changed.”

Students and concerned adults across this great nation have voluntarily accepted this wonderful responsibility to personally sacrifice and raise funds to purchase the equipment missionaries need to reach the lost.

We give so our missionaries can travel faster, preach more clearly, and be heard more loudly, in order that that heaven might be a bigger place…filled with people from every nationality, color, and tribe who have accepted Him as their Savior. For more information, check out www.speedthelight.com.

Ambassadors in Mission (AIM)

The Great Commission calls Christians to not only evangelize but also to disciple. Ambassadors in Mission (AIM) is designed to help students do just that by working side by side with missionaries on the field so they can directly share in and experience their ministries firsthand.

AIM gives students and leaders the opportunity to partner with missionaries and churches in the greatest cause on earth—reaching a lost world with the wonderful message of Jesus. AIM trips are possible because of missionaries who dedicate their lives to live and work in the countries where God has called them.

Our goal is to see every student be able to go on an AIM trip before they graduate high school. And through the hands-on, interactive learning AIM trips provide, students and adults alike will be able to apply the same passion they experience on the mission field to their own neighborhoods and campuses here at home.